That’s an accusation you can just as easily lob at Python, but nobody does, because needling Python programmers isn’t exciting.
From my point of view, the problem is that people are now asking for other languages to be like Go, and repeating Go’s problems in new languages. For example, I can make an argument that Go is setting GC progress back a decade.
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Please show me a case where developers are demanding that some other language _not have generics_.
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Nobody argues to remove features from existing languages. But they do argue that new languages don’t need certain features. 5 years ago I certainly saw a lot of people saying that Go proved that languages don’t need generics: e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/vldyv/less_is_exponentially_more_rob_pike_on_the/c55vcpr/ …
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